The optimal approach to design, build, operate, and maintain buildings

With this strategic guide to building information modeling (BIM), you'll learn how to implement this new technology as part of a comprehensive systems approach to the design, construction, management, operation, maintenance, and use of buildings. The authors, among the leading experts and pioneers in BIM, show you how BIM supports more streamlined, integrated, and efficient business processes throughout the life cycle of buildings, from their initial conception through their eventual retirement or reuse. The result is better quality buildings, lower construction and operating costs, shorter project turnaround times, and a higher quality of building information to support better business decisions.  Moreover, they set forth a plan for incorporating BIM into every organization's existing workflows, enabling you to take full advantage of all the benefits that BIM offers.

Everything you need to implement a BIM approach is set forth in detail, including:

• The business case for BIM, demonstrating how it can improve collaboration, facilitate better design and construction, optimize workflow, and help reduce risk
• Guidance for meeting the challenges of BIM such as an entrenched business culture, the proliferation of BIM tools, and the uneven rates of BIM adoption
• The "big picture" view showing how your organization can work with business partners and fit into the building life cycle in a BIM-enabled industry

Throughout the book, sample documents and figures help you better understand the principles of BIM and how it works in practice. In addition, first-hand accounts show you exactly how adopters of BIM have gained a competitive edge.

Architects, engineers, constructors, building owners, and facility managers can turn to this book to realize the full potential of BIM and radically improve the way buildings are designed, built, operated, and maintained.

Dana K. Smith, FAIA, is Executive Director of the buildingSMART alliance, a program of the National Institute of Build-ing Sciences (NIBS), and a Senior Analyst with Cyon Research. He is the founder and former chair of the NIBS Facility Information Council, developer of the U.S. National Computer Aided Design (CAD) Standard and the National Building Information Modeling (BIM) Standard. His efforts to advance the art and science of building have been recognized by numerous honors and accolades, including the 1996 Federal 100 Award, the 1997 NIBS Member Award, and the 2006 CAD Society Leadership Award.

MICHAEL TARDIF, Assoc. AIA, CSI, Hon. SDA, is Director of Integrated Project Delivery Systems for Grunley Construction Company in Rockville, Maryland, and a contributing editor to AIArchitect and Construction Project Controls and BIM Report. He is the former director of the Center for Technology and Practice Management of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the former project manager of the agcXML Project, an initiative funded and executed by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) under the auspices of the buildingSMART alliance, one of the first standards-development efforts to support genuine e-commerce in the building industry.

The optimal approach to design, build, operate, and maintain
buildings

With this strategic guide to building information modeling
(BIM), you'll learn how to implement this new technology as
part of a comprehensive systems approach to the design,
construction, management, operation, maintenance, and use of
buildings. The authors, among the leading experts and
pioneers in BIM, show you how BIM supports more streamlined,
integrated, and efficient business processes throughout the life
cycle of buildings, from their initial conception through their
eventual retirement or reuse. The result is better quality
buildings, lower construction and operating costs, shorter project
turnaround times, and a higher quality of building information to
support better business decisions. Moreover, they set forth a
plan for incorporating BIM into every organization's existing
workflows, enabling you to take full advantage of all the benefits
that BIM offers.

Everything you need to implement a BIM approach is set
forth in detail, including:

* The business case for BIM, demonstrating how it can improve
collaboration, facilitate better design and construction, optimize
workflow, and help reduce risk

* Guidance for meeting the challenges of BIM such as an
entrenched business culture, the proliferation of BIM tools, and
the uneven rates of BIM adoption

* The "big picture" view showing how your
organization can work with business partners and fit into the
building life cycle in a BIM-enabled industry

Throughout the book, sample documents and figures help you
better understand the principles of BIM and how it works in
practice. In addition, first-hand accounts show you exactly
how adopters of BIM have gained a competitive edge.

Architects, engineers, constructors, building owners, and
facility managers can turn to this book to realize the full
potential of BIM and radically improve the way buildings are
designed, built, operated, and maintained.

With this strategic guide to building information modeling (BIM), you'll learn how to implement this new technology as part of a comprehensive systems approach to the design, construction, management, operation, maintenance, and use of buildings. The authors, among the leading experts and pioneers in BIM, show you how BIM supports more streamlined, integrated, and efficient business processes throughout the life cycle of buildings, from their initial conception through their eventual retirement or reuse. The result is better quality buildings, lower construction and operating costs, shorter project turnaround times, and a higher quality of building information to support better business decisions. Moreover, they set forth a plan for incorporating BIM into every organization's existing workflows, enabling you to take full advantage of all the benefits that BIM offers.

Everything you need to implement a BIM approach is set forth in detail, including:

• The business case for BIM, demonstrating how it can improve collaboration, facilitate better design and construction, optimize workflow, and help reduce risk
• Guidance for meeting the challenges of BIM such as an entrenched business culture, the proliferation of BIM tools, and the uneven rates of BIM adoption
• The big picture view showing how your organization can work with business partners and fit into the building life cycle in a BIM-enabled industry

Throughout the book, sample documents and figures help you better understand the principles of BIM and how it works in practice. In addition, first-hand accounts show you exactly how adopters of BIM have gained a competitive edge.

Architects, engineers, constructors, building owners, and facility managers can turn to this book to realize the full potential of BIM and radically improve the way buildings are designed, built, operated, and maintained.

Foreword xi

Introduction xv

Chapter 1 Building Industry Challenges and Opportunities 1

Global Trends in Supply and Demand 2

Benchmarking Construction Productivity 3

Construction Productivity Metrics 6

Benchmarking Building Performance 8

Converting Inefficiency and Waste into Profit 10

Benchmarking Waste 11

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